According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an
errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form.
This check was never done in Linux.
The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts
were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout.
hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form.
Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the
optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as
already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16.
To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and
invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did.
Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel
messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected.
After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a
correct validation check. This is also documented in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers
(sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
The only possibly modular users left are:
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
which I'll send out fixes for soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative
memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory
allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches
(such as inode caches).
The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these
kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of
preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing.
All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack
and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be
allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA
mempolicy.
There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel
allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data
structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the
kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the
nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put
those pages on the node where the task is running.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the
kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes
and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to
use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is
running.
The implementation is simple. Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page'
or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or
subsequently joins that cpuset. In subsequent patches, the page allocation
calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an
inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the value of a
per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current
tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.
This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place
thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large
file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the
jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this patch, especially for jobs that
might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across
the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven.
A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well. And a couple of email
addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes the documentation of the ISA legacy functions.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update documentation of the common I/O layer:
- Add MSS-specific example.
- Add more information on ccwgroup devices.
- Add channel path type attribute.
- Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6:
NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
NTFS: Semaphore to mutex conversion.
NTFS: Handle the recently introduced -ENAMETOOLONG return value from
NTFS: Add a missing call to flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in
NTFS: Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_index_inode() where we
NTFS: Improve comments on file attribute flags in fs/ntfs/layout.h.
NTFS: Limit name length in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() to maximum
NTFS: Remove all the make_bad_inode() calls. This should only be called
NTFS: Add support for sparse files which have a compression unit of 0.
NTFS: Fix comparison of $MFT and $MFTMirr to not bail out when there are
NTFS: Use buffer_migrate_page() for the ->migratepage function of all ntfs
NTFS: Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we
NTFS: Fix an (innocent) off-by-one error in the runlist code.
NTFS: Fix two compiler warnings on Alpha. Thanks to Andrew Morton for
Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI. However,
it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers
should handle. So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user
to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch contains the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add Broadcom HT-1000 south bridge's PCI ID to i2c-piix driver. Note
that at least on Supermicro H8SSL it uses non-standard SMBHSTCFG = 3
and standard values like 0 or 9 causes hangup.
Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stop resetting the chip on load by default, so as to preserve the BIOS
initializations. Same was done in the w83627hf driver some times ago
for the same reasons.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Document the individual alarm and beep bits of the w83781d driver.
Ideally we would offer a chip-independant interface for them, but
until it's done, it's only fair that we document the current
interface.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add support for the Winbond W83687THF chip to the w83627hf hardware
monitoring driver. This new chip is almost similar to the already
supported W83627THF chip, except for VID and a few other minor
changes.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp.
The interface is based on a special character device, called the snapshot
device, that allows user space processes to perform suspend and resume-related
operations with the help of some ioctls and the read()/write() functions.
Additionally it allows these processes to allocate free swap pages from a
selected swap partition, called the resume partition, so that they know which
sectors of the resume partition are available to them.
The interface uses the same low-level system memory snapshot-handling
functions that are used by the built-it swap-writing/reading code of swsusp.
The interface documentation is included in the patch.
The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device will
be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
requested.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update suspend-to-RAM documentation with new machines, and makes message
when processes can't be stopped little clearer. (In one case, waiting
longer actually did help).
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Warn in the documentation that data may be lost if there are some
filesystems mounted from USB devices before suspend.
[Thanks to Alan Stern for providing the answer to the question in the
Q:-A: part.]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup. This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall. Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation: Added FSL SOC SEC node definition
Updated the documentation to include the definition of the SEC device
node format for Freescale SOC devices.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Modules: Documentation
Fixes typos in Audiophile-USB.txt.
Signed-off-by: Thibault LE MEUR <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,HDA Codec driver
Added a new model 'laptop-eapd' to AD1986A codec for Samsung R65 and
ASUS A6J laptops.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,HDA Codec driver
Add support for VAIO FE550G and SZ110 laptops with Sigmatel codec (7661).
The new model 'vaio' is added.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,USB generic driver
The patch adds the 'device_setup' module parameter and a specific
quirk to correctly initialize the audiophile usb device: this fixes
the distorted sound bug on the Analog capture port. Backward
compatibility is achieved by simply omitting the new parameter.
Signed-off-by: Thibault LE MEUR <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,HDA Codec driver
Fix the support of laptops with AD1986A HD-audio codec.
Added new models '3stack' and 'laptop'. Currently, fixed for FSC V2060
and Samsung M50.
Also fixed the description of missing models in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,HDA Codec driver
Added a new model 'lg' for LG laptop (m1 express dual) with ALC880 codec.
Also clean up the initialization/unsol_event hooks in patch_realtek.c.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,HDA Intel driver
Added single_cmd module option for debugging in the case CORB/RIRB
doesn't work well (e.g. due to wrong irq routings).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This patch fixes a wrong URL in Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware.
This patch fixes kernel Bugzilla #4301.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This is a trivial patch which fixes a typo on rwlock usage under
Documentation/spinlocks.txt.
Signed-Off-By: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Patch from Ben Dooks
Add devices that we have drivers for, and
update list of machines that are supported
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
